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Honor and Dignity-- Two Noble Kinsmen is based on Geoffrey Chaucer's the Knight's Tale. Three queens ask Theseus and Hippolyta to avenge the deaths of their husbands at the hands of the tyrant Creon of Thebes. Theseus agrees and wages a war that changes the fate of many those involved. The play ends with a public tournament. Come all sad, and solemn shows, That are quick-eyed Pleasure's foes; We convent nought else but woes. We convent nought else but woes.

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English playwright and poet whose works form the cornerstone of the English literary canon. Writing during the Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, he produced comedies, tragedies, histories, and romances that continue to shape world literature and theatre. John Fletcher (1579-1625) was a prominent Jacobean playwright who succeeded Shakespeare as house dramatist for the King's Men. Known for his collaborations and refined tragicomic style, Fletcher played a central role in the development of seventeenth-century English drama.

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